Well Farmhouse and Adjoining Shippon to East is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Well Farmhouse and Adjoining Shippon to East

WRENN ID
shifting-rotunda-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Well Farmhouse and Adjoining Shippon to East, EX22 6RX
OS grid reference
SX 313 973
Coordinates
50.75092, -4.39192
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Well Farmhouse and the adjoining shippon to the east is a farmhouse dating from around the 16th century, with alterations made in the late 17th century, as indicated by a concealed datestone from 1669. The building was restored in 1982. It is constructed of roughcast cob and stone rubble, topped with a corrugated iron roof that has a gabled lower end on the right and a hipped higher end on the left. The farmhouse has a long, single-depth plan, likely originally consisting of three rooms and a cross or through passage, and it may have featured an open hall that is now floored.

The structure is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical arrangement of three windows. The windows are 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, while the right-hand ground floor room at the lower end features a sash window. There is a doorway to the right of the centre, which possibly leads to the former through or cross passage, and this is sheltered by a 19th or 20th-century glazed porch with shaped bargeboards. The farmhouse has a rendered axial stack backing onto the passage and a later stack at the lower gable end, with a lateral stack over the rear wall of the upper end. A projecting wing is located at the front of the higher end.

The adjoining shippon projects at right angles to the rear of the lower end and has a hipped roof. Inside, there are two cruck trusses, likely raised crucks, featuring trenched purlins and a diagonal ridge piece. Some evidence of smoke blackening can be found in the roof, and the ground floor room at the east end contains roughly hewn, closely spaced beams, some of which have been replaced.

Local climate

Well Farmhouse and Adjoining Shippon to East sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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